5 Documents and Records Relating to the Province of New Hampshire 128-29 (1871)

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Document

Publication Date

7-23-1749

Article Footnote

Article 3, footnote 4

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Abstract

... Jotham Ordione, a substantial citizen of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, received two alarming letters demanding that he deposit £500 in a specified place or else scores of men would destroy all his property down to the last sixpence worth and “your person also when ever you can be found in a convenient place.

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… he [Jotham Ordione] complained to the Governor and Council, which, perhaps fearing a significant outbreak of violence, launched an investigation